Chinese Director Xie Fei Slams Censorship

Well-known Chinese director Xie Fei published an open letter online on the 15th of December. He says he sent a movie in to be censored four months ago, but still hasn't got a response about his so-called ?problem movie?.

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Xie Fei says in looking around the world, there are very few countries like China with such heavy censorship, including large administrative departments from higher to lower levels. He says it?s a staggering waste of tax payers' money.

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He also says that the Film Board's so-called comment, that ?The Film Classification System doesn't suit socialist countries,? is ridiculous.

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Chinese author Tie Liu believes that this is the difference between democratic and autocratic systems.

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[Tie Liu, Chinese Author]:

?Democratic countries take a system of accountability, questioning responsibility. Authoritarian countries take the pre-trial system, and censorship is called the pre-trial. A news article, a book, a movie, before it is published, must go through the pretrial procedure. After the pretrial, it could be shot dead and would no longer be published.?

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Xie Fei graduated with a degree in film directing from the Beijing Film Academy. He has directed many films, including ?Black Snow?, ?Woman Sesame Oil Maker?, and ?A Mongolian Tale?, which have won international awards. Xie Fei also played the role of art director and producer in this year's Mandarin film ?Feng Shui?.

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At the end of his open letter, Xie Fei referred to the words of the past Chinese film master Zhao Dan: ?Literary (Arts) will become hopeless if they are controlled too tightly.? The comment has resonated with many people, especially Web users.

Source: http://ntdtv.org/en/news/china/2012-12-18/chinese-director-xie-fei-slams-censorship.html

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